Senior Client Executive - Strategics

As a Client Executive (CE) – Strategic, you will own and lead NetApp’s engagement with a small number of the company’s most complex and strategically important customers. You will be accountable for driving long-term revenue growth and expanding NetApp’s footprint through deep executive relationships, multi-year account strategies, and outcome-based solutions. You will serve as a trusted advisor to C-level and executive leadership, aligning NetApp’s portfolio to the customer’s business strategy, digital transformation initiatives, and enterprise-wide priorities. This role requires orchestration across global sales, pre-sales, services, partners, and executive stakeholders to deliver sustained customer value.

Job Requirements

• Own and execute multi‑year strategic account plans aligned to customer business objectives and transformation priorities.
• Build and maintain deep, multi‑level executive relationships, including C‑suite and senior line‑of‑business leaders.
• Lead complex, enterprise‑wide sales engagements from pipeline creation through executive negotiation and close.
• Act as the overall sales orchestrator, engaging internal specialists, services, and partners at the right time.
• Oversee multiple concurrent sales motions across regions, portfolios, and partners with a unified customer strategy.
• Partner closely with Solution Engineers to align NetApp’s portfolio to long‑term customer roadmaps.
• Lead strategic partner co‑selling and serve as the executive escalation point for critical customer situations.

Skills & Competencies

• Proven track record of exceeding quota within large, complex, strategic customer environments.
• Ability to engage credibly and influence decision‑making at C‑suite and executive levels.
• Strong strategic and commercial acumen, translating business challenges into long‑term value creation.
• Exceptional leadership and coordination skills across matrixed sales teams and partners.
• Deep understanding of modern data, cloud, hybrid, and enterprise infrastructure technologies.
• Highly organized, disciplined, and resilient in managing long sales cycles and competing priorities.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience; significant experience in strategic or global account sales.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, and any protected classification.

Why NetApp? We are all about helping customers turn challenges into business opportunity. It starts with bringing new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively to run better - but also to innovate. We tailor our approach to the customer's unique needs with a combination of fresh thinking and proven approaches. We enable a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time per year to volunteer with their favourite organizations. We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family. We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts. Finally, we provide financial savings programs to help you plan for your future. If you want to help us build knowledge and solve big problems, let's talk.